From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Mon 31 Jan 1994 - 22:07:32 EET
Hi Brad.
>In today's game here at home, all melee attacks by PC and NPC occurred in
>either SR6 or SR7. This is not unusual here, but do other campaigns show
>significantly more variety? Is the RuneQuest method of determining who
>fights in which sequence (and when within the round) too simplistic?
1) what's wrong with simultaneity? Simultaneous hits happen all the time in
epee fencing.
2) given that attacks frequently are simultaneous (or very close), maybe
the whole SR concept could be dropped in the interest of simplicity? [I
disbelieve in the accuracy of rules that say someone who's hit 0.6 seconds
before his blow is due to land would not frequently be able to finish the
blow.]
> Is it necessary to change the time parameters which existed well enough
>in RQ3 and RQ2? Why is a round now ("Approximately") 6 seconds instead of
>the traditional 12? If a change was necessary, why not adjust 10 SR/round to
>12 SR/round in order to show SR = seconds? If a change was necessary, why
>not adjust 12 seconds/round to 10 seconds/round in order to show SR =
>seconds? Such equations could show much benefit in demonstrating movement,
>speed, and time "Meters-per-second" is something to which the players can
>relate.
Let's see, people seem to typically move at 5, so they sprint 15
metres/round. In a minute, they'd go 150 metres. At this rate, it would
take them over 10 minutes to run a mile...
Here's a glitch in the movement rules:
Person A is fastest and moves first. He moves next to person B, who wishes
to engage him, and thus has to stop. Person C does the same.
Now person B changes his mind and books. Since he didn't begin the round
adjacent to a foe, he can.
My guess is that the fastest people move first to deal with the engagement
problem, and that what the authors meant to write on p.74 was "Combatants
who start their movement adjacent to an active foe who wishes to engage
them, or vice versa, are engaged, and cannot move. <new paragraph>
Combatants moving backwards ..."
Does standing up count as an action, or is it part of moving?
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